Sports Nurture Program An Initiative of Tata Trusts
An Initiative of Tata Trusts

Kreedakul Grassroots Sports Nurture Program

Technical and Implementation Partner:
Jnana Prabodhini Kreedakul Department (JPK)

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Jnana Prabodhini Kreedakul Department (JPK)

Kreedakul Grassroots Sports Nurture Program - An Initiative of Tata Trusts

Holistic development of all school going children through sports and nurturing the sports talent is the need of our time due to increasing sedentary lifestyles. Notably, previous studies have confirmed the relationship between physical activity and improved social-emotional indicators1 In addition to developing healthy life styles, acquiring social-emotional skills at a younger age can play an important role in improving their chances of social engagement and healthier mindsets, during youth and adulthood.

Jnana Prabodhini Kreedakul, Nigdi (JPK), a branch of Jnana Prabodhini, focusing on sports education, has been grooming children at the grassroots to become State and National winners, by integrating education and sports science, based on Ayurvedic principles, with sports, for the past 25 years. They now would like to extend their experience of scientific and systematic approach towards Sports participation, joyous engagement and talent development, to other interested institutes around Pune, who can set up grassroot centers in their neighboring villages (a Hub and spokes model).

Grassroots Kreedakul

Program

Long Term Goal: To foster active children and youth with enhanced sporting skills who passionately pursue sports, creating pathways for talented individuals from grassroots to compete at State/National levels, while also empowering institutions and rural communities with the ownership, knowledge, and capacity to sustain sports development programs.

Purpose: To cultivate life skills in children through sports, facilitating the adoption of healthy lifestyles, nurturing athletes as role models, and concurrently strengthening the sporting ecosystem in rural India.

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Grassroots Kreedakul - Objective

● Implement structured physical activity and sports training embedded with life skills to actively involve children aged 8 to 14 in schools and communities within rural areas, fostering the development of healthy habits and ensuring positive experiences.
● Develop capacities of local bodies to set up and manage sustained sports training programs.
● Demonstrate Hub and spoke model set up in rural areas.

Grassroots Kreedakul - Methods

Setting up Hub and spoke model for developing athletes

Hub would be interested institutes (educational/community), already working in sports/interested in sports, having basic infrastructure in place to organise sports coaching. The institute would be led by passionate individuals/team who want to develop sports programs for engaging children from the rural areas, willing to learn and adapt and can anchor the program.

Spokes would be village level institutes (schools/academies/ community owned), having basic infrastructure to host grassroots sports training programs having children from the nearby areas willing to come and train in sports. 6-10 grassroot centre will be set up around each Hub. Existing training centres would be given preference.

A grant funding the entire program would be given by Tata Trusts to JPK.

JPK will further sub grant to each hub, the required funding to run the grassroot programs, based on predefined budgets.

Hub would be responsible for the program implementation in its own centre as well as development of the near by grassroot centres as they would be the real nurseries identifying true talent with the best ones moving to the Hub for next level of growth.

Hub would also be responsible for monitoring and sharing required documentation with JPK regarding the program.

Program Components

Setting up Hub and spoke model for developing athletes

● Centers and outreach: Hub and spoke model with 4 hubs and each hub having 6-10 spokes. With an avg of 30 children per center, proposed outreach of around 1000 children.
● Physical literacy program in schools (wherever we get permission)
● Skilling of resources:
o Sport skill training for sports locally played in the region (Kho kho, Kabaddi, Volleyball, Athletics).
o Life skill training (based on Olympic Value education program)
o Workshops with parents for increasing awareness importance of sports and developing healthy habits based on ayurved principles (home based remedies for disease prevention)
o Mental training of children to develop 20th century life skills (communication, collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, character and leadership)
o Skilling of administrators to take ownership and look for innovative solutions to local problems
o Workshops with community for developing awareness around sports career opportunities
● Regular assessments of enrolled athletes to track progress of each individual
● Talent identification and competitive training for selected athlete, to participate at State and national levels and become role models for their community
● Grassroots leagues/tournaments to provide opportunities for each athlete to showcase their skills
● Awards and recognition model based on self-improvement and not just medals won, for the athletes, coaches and administrators at all levels. Self improvement will be tracked not just for sports skills but also habits and soft skills.
● Impact assessment would be done to show improvement in physical fitness, sports skills, life skills, good habit formation
● Interested schools and communities are encouraged to contact us to express their interest in becoming a hub and spoke for the program.

CONTACT US

Jnana Prabodhini Kreedakul, Nigdi (JPK)
Email us at: manager@grassrootskreedakul.com